Improvement in winding-frames for carding-engines



UNITED STATES PATENT OEIIIcE.y

WILLIAM LEAGH AND JOSEPH LEAOH, OFNEW HARMONY, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WINDING-FRAIVIES FOR CARDlNG-ENGINES.

Speciiieation forming part of Letters Patent No. 81,514, dated August 25, 1868.

l To all lwhom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM LEACH and J osEPH LEAGH, of New Harmony, in the county of Posey, and in the State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Winding Frames for Oarding- Engines; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accom4 panying drawings, forming a part of this speciiication, in which- Figure l is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 is a front view.

The object of this invention is to produce a frame for winding the wool-roping from a condenser or other earding-machine into balls or rolls of convenient size for use in a hand spinning-machine.

The ordinary winding-frame of a condenser, as now used, is simply adapted to wind all the slivers or rolls upon one long spool7 which, when full, is removed to the jack for spinning.-

Our winding-frame, on the contrary, is designed to wind the roping so as to keep each sliver or roll apart from the rest while being wound, so as to enable the operator to produce a separate and continuous roll wound in a suitable form for packing, conveying, and using in a hand spinning-machine.

We accomplish this purpose by using a smooth iron roller to wind the wool upon, instead of the ordinary long wooden spool `now used for winding the roping on for the jack. We place upon the said smooth iron roller A a suflicient number of thin movable flanges, Bso arranged as to keep each sliver or roping separate while winding upon said smooth roller.

The ordinary drum which fills the jackspool is now a simple undivided drum. In our frame, said drum is divided into a series of fifteen (15) or more small drums or cylinders, placed about a quarter of an inch apart, so that the movable flanges B can fall into the open spaces or divisions between the drums O C C, thus allowing the smooth iron roller to come in contact with and freely revolve, as usual, on the peripheries of said drums while winding the roping.

In addition to the above we use an eXtra pressing-roller, which is not used at all upon the ordinary winding-frame of a condenser. This presser consists of a series of drums, D D D, arranged as above described. As soon as the smooth rod A is placed on the windingdrums O O G, and each sliver is in its position for windin g, the movable flanges being placed in the open spaces between the drums O C C, the pressing-roller is then placed upon the iron roller, and the winding proceeds as usual. The flanges are intended to keep the slivers' apart, and the effect of the presser is to cause the rolls to be wound on the smooth rod in a rm and compact manner.

As soon as the rolls are of sufficient size thepresser is lifted off, the smooth rod removed from the frame, and the balls are then slipped off into a box or other receptacle. In order to facilitate the slipping of the wool from the rod, it canl be made very smooth, and be slightly tapering from its center to each end. The rolls being slipped off, the flanges are replaced on the rod for a fresh iilling.

The rotary and transverse motion can be communicated to the windingframe in the usual manner by connecting it with the condenser, after removing the ordinary frame and placing ours in its position.

Having thus described our invention', we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The smooth rod or roller A, provided with movable flanges B B, in combination with a series of drums, D D, above, and another series of dru1ns,O C, below, the same, all constructed as described, and operating substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that We claim the foregoing We have hereunto set our hands this 2d day of March, 1868.

WILLIAM LEAOH. JOSEPH LEAOH.

Witnesses:

V. C. DUoLos, JAMES LYON. i 

